Actually, that's a good point.  All that writing to the FAT would use
those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out.


I trashed a Crucial 1GB drive in a few weeks, until I found out about
this change.

I think this problem should find its way in the official Gentoo docs (if it isn't already there). It affects all recent Linux distros anyway. It's quite crucial -trashing usb flash drives is NOT good marketing for our beloved penguin.

Anyone knows if on the LKML the devs gave some opinion about this side effect?

m.
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